I spent the weekend at the Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre in Bordeaux, France.This is the biggest Free Software meeting in France, and the community is tremendously active. There are lots of groups doing great work, from April via Aful and user-operated ISP French Data Network, and I met many impressive, smart and dedicated people. Read more »

As we non-French speakers are desperately trying to grab every morsel of information that comes out about the current state of the French copyright law, Jean-Baptiste Soufron comes to our rescue. Here’s his summary in English, which he wrote so that he doesn’t have to answer tons of emails on this question. Thanks!